Maple-leaved Goosefoot
Chenopodium simplex
Description 6
Herbs annual, 0.4-2.2 m tall. Stem erect, sparsely branched above, stout, light yellow or purple ribbed, glabrous or sparsely farinose. Petiole 2-7 cm; leaf blade fresh green on both surfaces, broadly ovate to ovate-triangular, 6-15 × 5-13 cm, glabrous or slightly farinose, base rounded, truncate, or subcordate, margin palmately lobed to deeply erose-dentate, apex acute or acuminate; lobes in 2 or 3 pairs, unequal, apex usually acute to acuminate; upper leaves smaller, leaf blade mostly triangular-hastate, margin with a few lobelike teeth, sometimes subentire. Flowers bisexual and female, usually several per glomerule, these arranged in spreading panicles on upper branches. Perianth segments 5, narrowly ovate, abaxially keeled, slightly farinose, margin membranous, apex obtuse. Stamens 5. Utricle lenticular; pericarp white dotted, membranous, adnate to seed. Seed horizontal, black, not lustrous, of same shape as utricle, usually 2-3 mm in diam., distinctly orbicular pitted; embryo annular. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
Sources and Credits
- (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://eol.org/media/5935118
- (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://eol.org/media/5935121
- (c) Mark Kluge, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mark Kluge
- (c) Lee Elliott, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Lee Elliott
- (c) Daniel Carter, all rights reserved, uploaded by Daniel Carter
- (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4932240
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- Calflora
- CalPhotos
- eFloras.org
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- Jepson eFlora
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- World Flora Online
